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1) Hoot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
At school, Olivia tells about her vacation and how, when she went to the circus and all the performers were out sick, she saved the day, becoming Olivia the Tattooed Lady, Olivia the Lion Tamer, The Amazing Flying Olivia, and more.
3) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A trip to the laundromat leads to a momentous occasion when Trixie, too young to speak words, realizes that something important is missing and struggles to explain the problem to her father.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this version of a traditional tale, Senor Calavera arrives at Grandma Beetle's door, ready to take her to the next life, but after helping her count, in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparations, he changes his mind.
Author
Series
Series of Unfortunate Events volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.
10) The wide window
Author
Series
Series of Unfortunate Events volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after being sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine, who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
11) My friend Rabbit
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.
12) The skin I'm in
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
13) The grim grotto
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah taught his six-year-old daughter to read.
18) Criss cross
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. These unforgettable images serve as the inspiration for Ms. Morrison"s text--a fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children who lived during the era of "separate but equal" schooling. Remember is a unique pictorial and narrative journey that introduces children to a watershed period in American...
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